1 Chronicles 10:9 “They stripped Saul, cut off his head, took his armor, and sent messeng…”

1 Chronicles 10:9

They stripped Saul, cut off his head, took his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temple of their idols and among their people.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And when they had stripped him, they took his head, and his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry tidings unto their idols, and to the people.

World English Bible

They stripped him and took his head and his armor, then sent into the land of the Philistines all around to carry the news to their idols and to the people.

American Standard Version

And they stripped him, and took his head, and his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry the tidings unto their idols, and to the people.

Geneva Bible 1599

And when they had stript him, they tooke his head and his armour, and sent them into the land of the Philistims round about, to publish it vnto their idoles, and to the people.

Darby Translation

And they stripped him, and took his head, and his armour, and sent [them] into the land of the Philistines round about, to announce the glad tidings to their idols, and to the people.

Young's Literal Translation

and strip him, and bear away his head, and his weapons, and send into the land of the Philistines round about to proclaim tidings [to] their idols and the people,

Bible in Basic English

And they took everything off him, and took his head and his war-dress, and sent word into the land of the Philistines round about to give the news to their gods and to the people.

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Cross references

“took”

2 Samuel 1:20 1 Chronicles 10:4 Matthew 14:11 1 Samuel 31:9 1 Samuel 31:10

2 Samuel 1:20 · BSB

Tell it not in Gath; proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, and the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.

1 Chronicles 10:4 · BSB

Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run me through with it, or these uncircumcised men will come and torture me!” But his armor-bearer was terrified and refused to do it. So Saul took his own sword a…

Matthew 14:11 · BSB

John’s head was brought in on a platter and presented to the girl, who carried it to her mother.

1 Samuel 31:9 · BSB

They cut off Saul’s head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temples of their idols and among their people.

1 Samuel 31:10 · BSB

They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.

“tidings”

Daniel 5:2–4 Daniel 5:23 Judges 16:23 Judges 16:24

Daniel 5:2–4 · BSB

Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver vessels that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king could drink from them, along with hi…

Daniel 5:23 · BSB

Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and…

Judges 16:23 · BSB

Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands.”

Judges 16:24 · BSB

And when the people saw him, they praised their god, saying: “Our god has delivered into our hands our enemy who destroyed our land and multiplied our dead.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

10They put his armor in the temple of their gods and hung his head in the temple of Dagon.

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